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Frédéric Saltzmann

fl. 1874–1886 · France

Brother of the excavator Auguste Salzmann, who gave the Colmar museum Cypriot pottery and, in 1874, a cabinet of Kameiros finds that held some Cypriot pieces.

Biography

Frédéric Saltzmann, brother of the excavator Auguste Salzmann, gave the museum at Unterlinden, Colmar, Cypriot pottery and a cabinet of Rhodian finds with some Cypriot pieces among them. His name is spelled differently in the two sources: the Revue d'Alsace prints "Saltzmann" and the Archäologischer Anzeiger "Salzmann"1,2.

In 1874 "Herr F. Salzmann, the brother of A. Salzmann" gave the museum a cupboard of objects labelled "Necropole von Kameiros". The museum's librarian and head, A. Waltz, told the author of the 1904 report that some pieces from Cyprus were mixed in with them. No provenance survives for individual objects, and only no. 5 of that report is unmistakably Cypriot in style2. The museum's file also refers to the report of the society's general meeting of 24 May 1874, which mentions this donation and an earlier gift by the same man of a collection of vessels from Cyprus; the date of the earlier gift is not given2.

The Revue d'Alsace of 1885 reviewed a volume of the Orléans archaeological society's Mémoires, in which Desnoyers discussed a gold earring in the Orléans museum from the Cypriot excavations of "our late compatriot Aug. Saltzmann, of Ribeauvillé". The reviewer added that his brother, Fréd. Saltzmann, had given the Colmar museum a number of objects of the same origin, less costly than the earring but valuable for their antiquity. The review does not date the gift1. Nothing is recorded of Frédéric Saltzmann's life or occupation.

Life and work

  1. by 1874
    Gave the museum of the Société Schongauer at Unterlinden, Colmar, a collection of pottery from Cyprus (before the gift of 1874), as the museum's own file recorded it

    Colmar(1904). Aus südwestdeutschen Museen. I. Colmar i. E. A. Salzmanns Funde in Kamiros. Jahrbuch des Kaiserlich Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Archäologischer Anzeiger, 47-48, pp. 47-48

  2. 1874
    Gave the Unterlinden museum a cabinet of objects labelled 'Necropole von Kameiros' (his brother A. Salzmann's Rhodian finds); the museum's librarian and head Waltz told the author that some Cypriot pieces were mixed in, but no individual provenances survive. Only no. 5 of the report is unmistakably Cypriot in style

    Colmar(1904). Aus südwestdeutschen Museen. I. Colmar i. E. A. Salzmanns Funde in Kamiros. Jahrbuch des Kaiserlich Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Archäologischer Anzeiger, 47-48, pp. 47-48

  3. by 1885
    Gave the Colmar museum a number of objects from his late brother Auguste Salzmann's excavations in Cyprus, of lesser material than the gold earring Salzmann's finds had given the Orléans museum (undated in the review)

    Colmar(1885). Bulletin bibliographique (review of Mémoires de la Société archéologique et historique de l'Orléanais, vol. 18). Revue d'Alsace, 141, p. 141

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Sources

  1. 1. (1885). “Bulletin bibliographique (review of Mémoires de la Société archéologique et historique de l'Orléanais, vol. 18)”. Revue d'Alsace, 141.
  2. 2. (1904). “Aus südwestdeutschen Museen. I. Colmar i. E. A. Salzmanns Funde in Kamiros”. Jahrbuch des Kaiserlich Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Archäologischer Anzeiger, 47-48.
  3. 3.Bulletin bibliographique, Revue d'Alsace, 1885, Review of Mémoires de la Société archéologique de l'Orléanais, tome XVIII, leaf 143.
  4. 4.Fédération des sociétés d'histoire et d'archéologie d'Alsace, Revue d'Alsace (1885).
  5. 5.Revue d'Alsace (1834).
  6. 6.1885, Bulletin bibliographique (review of Mémoires de la Société archéologique et historique de l'Orléanais, vol. 18).
  7. 7.Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Archäologischer Anzeiger (1849).
  8. 8.Jahrbuch des Kaiserlich Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (1886).

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